Today's border between Canada and the United States emerged from more than 200 years of treaties and negotiations. Following the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles on September 3, 1783, a political dispute arose between the new republic of the United States of America and British North America over the location of the border. The territorial limits between the United States and Quebec were contested in the Aroostook district, and from 1783 to 1842 the Quebec, Maine, and New Brunswick border area saw military operations involving the United States and the British Crown colonies of Canada. Although the conflict did not lead to bloodshed, a series of skirmishes among border inhabitants became known as the Aroostook War, rooted in competition over Aroostook lumber resources. In 1842, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ended the conflict when Lord Ashburton, representing the British Crown, reached an agreement with Daniel Webster, U.S. Secretary of State, on the location of the border. This compromise settled the dispute over the Aroostook district and the Quebec–Maine border and established the border known today, though the Quebec–Maine border issue was not definitively resolved until 1908.